Review Article
Airway Epithelium in Atopic and Nonatopic Asthma: Similarities and Differences
Table 3
Chemokine and chemokine receptor expression by the respiratory epithelium and submucosa.
| Chemokine and/or (receptor) | Atopic asthma | Nonatopic asthma |
| IL-8 | ++ | ++ +/− [24, 35, 36, 43] | IP10(CXCR3) | ++ [46] | ? | I-TAC(CXCR3) | +/− [46] | ? | RANTES(CCR 3) | ++ | +++/− [37, 41–43] | MCP-1(CCR2/4) | ++ | ++ [43] | MCP-3 & 4(CCR3) | ++ | ++ [37, 41, 42] | Eotaxin(CCR3) | ++ | ++ [37, 41, 42] | TARC(CCR4) | ++ [46, 47] | ? | MDC(CCR4) | ++ [46, 47] | ? | CCR8 | + [47] | ? |
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?—Comparison/data not available.
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